You just made a list of many of the things I truly hate, food wise, lol. I guess sun-dried tomatoes are okay? π
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I'm the exact opposite. Sun-dried tomatoes taste stale and plasticky to me. Everything else on the list is fantastico. Where would we be without capers in tartare sauce, or black olives on pizza?
Or green olives in an extra dirty martini?
Have you ever had homegrown sundried cherry tomatoes? I think there's a huge difference in flavor between good and bad tomatoes
Homegrown tomatoes of any type will beat the hell out of anything purchased at a store.
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Artichoke hearts. Straight from the jar with a fork. Yum.
Pimento olives, chopped fine and mashed into cream cheese, spread on pumpernickel (bread, bagel, etc).
Capers can fuck off entirely.
I was with you until you disparaged against capers
Same. Capers are amazing. Still upvoted them though haha
Pickled beets. They're good until you forget you ate them
I love beets. And the ensuing staring into a toilet wondering if I should go see a doctor
Write "you ate beets" to a post-it and stick it on the mirror
Round here we call cornichons βsweet gherkinsβ and theyβre pretty good
Also: At one point you put black olives on your fingertips for the last time and you didnβt know it.
That day has not yet come.
Green olives. Preferably stuffed with garlic.
Pickles are my favorite, especially dill spears. I've also enjoyed capers on top of grilled salmon with (I think) a beurre blanc sauce. Kalamata olives on pizza is really good too.
I casually snack on cornichons straight out of the jar, or else with ham and camembert on a French baguette. In that case I'll slice them lengthwise just so they don't roll off.
Pickles are definitely my favorite on that list. My favorite is probably zesty bread and butter, but I also love dill. Black olives are alright. Most pickled veg are pretty good. Pickled jalapenos are good, but I much prefer fresh ones.
I make my own kimchi, sauerkraut, and various Chinese fermented vegetables.
I make what I call a "dirty margarita." JalapeΓ±o stuffed olives are a must.
In a salad, kalamata or dried black olives.
Pickled asparagus and pepperoncinis.
I love all of these, but if I could only ever live with one it would be capers.
Pickles a close second. My FIL has an amazing recipe for tuna salad: three ripe avocado, three tins of tuna drained and pressed for minimum moisture, three teaspoon mayo and six small pickles finely chopped. (3 tsp mayo is about 1tbsp, but i wrote it like that so you can adjust to size needed 1:1:1:2)
Now I want to share a great caper recipe. This one is definitely greater than the sum of its parts and I didn't think I liked sardines prior to this:
I use the oil from the sardines to make up part of the required olive oil
Salt-fermented pickles. Mmmmm.
But really, I love all this stuff.
Every one is an s tier food. I fucking love olives and pickles.
I'm a fan of so many pickled and fermented things. It'd be a long list to answer.
I much prefer lacto-fermented foods over vinegar-pickled.
Peppers, both sweet and hot? Love 'em, especially fire roasted. Sun dried tomatoes? Hell yeah, great to cook with.
Soak something in vinegar though? Yeah, nah, I'm all set, thank you very much.
I just did a batch of lactofermented cherry tomatoes, and the one out of four jars that didnβt get moldy just tastes a bit salty, not really fermented. Not sure what I did wrong.
Canned black olives are my favorite, followed by the pickle chips, and then regular pickles, which I'm not sure if funny-name-I've-never-seen-before is or if those are the weird sweet ones.
Marinated sun-dried tomatoes & garlic. I could eat that forever.
Everything on this list is my favorite, basically
Canned black olives are the only olives I really enjoy, but I haven't had a green olive since I was a kid and now I am not sure if the olive was gross or if it was just the pimento I hated.
But dill pickles (gherkins) are a top tier snack and condiment.
I like them all haha.
Pickles might be my favorite though.
4,5,6 & 8. Olives in a salad, pickles on a sandwich and artichoke on a pizza
4 and 5. I really dislike pickles. It's strange because they're both vegetables in pickled water
- In a martini
- Off of fingertips (though my fingers are big enough that I just have to eat them out of the can)
JalapeΓ±os. I like them on everything from nachos to burgers, but I vastly prefer fresh to pickled.
Sauerkraut. Only on a Reuben.
None of this sounds good
Found the reptilian
These are all things I hated biting into on burgers and pizza so they have a very mild traumatization to them ruining them forever
I like all of these except capers. I eat olives and pickles regularly.
All have their place, but canned black olives tap into childhood nostalgia. Putting an olive on each finger and eating them one at a time.
2, 6 and 8 is fine.
Olives and capers can fuck right off!
marinated garlic cloves, olives stuffed with almonds, mini peppers with cream cheese
also, capers and cornichons have no business being food.
In order: 8 (sans sauerkraut & pickled veggies), 1, 7, 3, 5, 4, 6, 2.
Canβt forget the pickled okra!
Pickles will never voluntarily touch my plate, and when they do I push my plate to the nearest pickle person so I donβt have to remove it myself and get contaminated with the vinegar.
Sun dried tomatoes and the occasional kalamata olive I can tolerate. Artichoke hearts and roasted bell peppers are awesome.
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